Education Week
By Lisa Duty, Ph.D.
Annually, for more than 45 years, the city of Reynoldsburg, Ohio has celebrated the Tomato Festival-- a nod to its heritage as the birthplace of the commercial tomato. This middle-America town also boasts one other claim to fame: A so-called "traditional" LEA, namely Reynoldsburg City Schools (RCS), which is poised to be a breakout star among serious implementers of thoroughly re-engineered conceptions of learning and schooling.
The Reynoldsburg City School District was recently named one of 61 national finalists for the U.S. Department of Education's 2012 Race to the Top-District competition. RCS brokered a partnership that crosses public education, non-profit, for-profit and social enterprise arenas, withBattelle Memorial Institute (the world's largest nonprofit research and development organization),Education Elements (one of the fastest growing education technology startups in the U.S.) and my own organization, KnowledgeWorks, to seize on the explosion of innovation that has been transforming how we think about learning, and how we organize talent and resources for learners.
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